Disabled Carnival Triumph cruise ship now being towed to Alabama

Disabled Carnival Triumph cruise ship now being towed to Alabama

12 Feb, 2013

Text: AP

The operators of a cruise vessel stranded in the Gulf of Mexico after a weekend engine fire said Monday evening that the craft had drifted so far north of its original position that they now will tow the ship to Mobile, Alabama, instead of their original plan for Progreso, Mexico.

Carnival Cruise Lines President and CEO Gerry Cahill said in a statement that strong currents caused the vessel, the Carnival Triumph, to drift about 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of its original position off the Yucatan Peninsula.

In pic: The Carnival Triumph cruise ship is pictured in the Gulf of Mexico from the US Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous. The cruise ship lost propulsion after an engine room fire on February 10 and was adrift off southern Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.